Villa Ballester

Villa Ballester
Villa Ballester (east side)
Villa Ballester Location in Greater Buenos Aires
Coordinates:
Country	Argentina
Province	Buenos Aires
Partido	San Martín
Founded	26 October 1889
Elevation	26 m (85 ft)
Population (2001 census [INDEC])
• Total	35,301
CPA Base	B 1653
Area code(s)	+54 11
Website	http://www.sanmartin.gov.ar

Villa Ballester is a city located in the northern Greater Buenos Aires urban area and it is part of the General San Martín Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is served by the Línea Mitre commuter railway with its station also named Villa Ballester. Founded on 26 October 1889.

History

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Pedro Ballester

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Nuestra Señora de La Merced Church

Pedro Ballester (4 December 1849 – 5 September 1928) started the development of the town in the late 1880s in some fields occupied by his family, the chacra Miguel Ballester y Flotat. A key factor for the success of the new town was the train which provided fast access to Buenos Aires. The town was named after the commercial partnership between Pedro Ballester and Guillermo Lacroze, "Sociedad Villa Ballester".

Notable residents

• Alejandro Awada (born 1961), actor
• Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), German-born photographer
• Carlos Ripamonte (1874–1968), painter
• Ceferino Carnacini (1888–1964), painter, lived 50 years in Villa Ballester
• Fernando Siro (1931–2006), film actor, film director and screenwriter
• Helmut Ditsch (born 1962), painter
• José Carreras (born 1946), Spanish tenor, lived in Villa Ballester for a year during his childhood
• José Hernández (1834–1886), journalist and poet, born at the Pueyrredón Chacra on 10 November 1834
• Luis César Amadori (1920–1977), film director, married to Zully Moreno
• Roberto De Vicenzo (born 1923), former professional golfer and The Open Championship winner

External links

• (Spanish) Villa Ballester Portal